PowerPoint Tutorial 1: Creating a Presentation

Objectives Plan and create a new presentation Create a title slide and slides with bulleted lists Change the theme Open an existing PowerPoint presentation Edit and format text in the Slide pane Use AutoCorrect New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Objectives Rearrange text in the Outline tab Rearrange slides in Normal and Slide Sorter view Delete slides View a slide show Create a new presentation based on an existing one Animate slide titles and bulleted lists New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Objectives Apply transitions Insert footer text, slide numbers, and the date on slides Create speaker notes Check the spelling in a presentation Preview and print slides, handouts, speaker notes, and the outline New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

The PowerPoint Window New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Creating a New Presentation PowerPoint is a powerful presentation graphics program that provides everything you need to produce an effective side show presentation that can be shown to an audience of provided to people to view on their own Click the Start button, point to All programs, click Microsoft Office, and then click Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Creating a New Presentation New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Creating a New Presentation Planning a presentations What is the purpose of your presentation? Who is your audience? How much time do you have for the presentation? Will your audience benefit from printed output? New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Creating a New Presentation New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Creating a New Presentation A bulleted list is a list of “paragraphs” with a special character to the left of each paragraph Bulleted item First-level bullet Second-level bullet Subbullet As you add text to a content placeholder, the AutoFit feature changes the line spacing and the font size of the text if you add more text than will fit in the placeholder New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Creating a New Presentation New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Using Themes Theme colors are the colors used for the background, title text, body text, accents, background colors and objects, and graphics in a presentation Theme fonts are two fonts or font styles, one for the titles (or headings) and one for text in content placeholders A graphic is a picture, shape, design, graph, chart, or diagram New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Using Themes New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Editing Text New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Undoing Actions If you make a mistake as you are working, you can undo your error by clicking the Undo button on the Quick Access Toolbar New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Using AutoCorrect The AutoCorrect feature automatically corrects certain words and typing errors New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Editing Text in the Outline Tab Working in the Outline tab allows you to see the outline of the entire presentation Promoting an item means moving an item higher in the outline Demoting an item moves the item lower in the outline New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Editing Text in the Outline Tab New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Rearranging Slides In Slide Sorter view, PowerPoint displays all the slides as thumbnails On the status bar, click the Slide Sorter button Dragging and dropping slides in Slide Sorter view will rearrange them in the presentation New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Rearranging Slides New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Deleting Slides In Slide Sorter view or in the Slides tab in Normal view, right-click the slide thumbnail of the slide you want to delete; or in the Outline tab in Normal view, right-click the slide title of the slide you want to delete On the shortcut menu, click Delete Slide or In Slide Sorter view or in the Slides tab in Normal view, click the slide thumbnail of the slide you want to delete; or in the Outline tab in Normal view, click the slide icon of the slide you want to delete Press the Delete key New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Running a Slide Show Slide Show view displays each slide so that it fills the entire screen with no toolbars or other Windows elements visible on the screen When you click the Slide Show button on the status bar, the slide show starts beginning with the current slide To start a slide show from the beginning, click the Slide Show tab on the Ribbon, and then in the Start then Slide Show group, click the From Beginning button In Slide Show view, you move from one slide to the next by pressing the Spacebar, the Enter key, the  key, or the Page Down key New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Running a Slide Show New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Using Animations and Transitions New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Creating a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation Click the File tab to open Backstage view, and then click the New tab in the navigation bar In the Home section, click New from Existing to open the New from Existing Presentation dialog box Navigate to the drive and folder containing the presentation on which to base the new presentation, click the presentation file, and then click the Create New button Save the new presentation New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Creating a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Animating Text Animations add interest to a slide show and draw attention to the text or object being animated Progressive disclosure Animation effects are grouped into four types: Entrance Emphasis Exit Motion Paths New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Animating Text Modifying the Start Timing of the Animation of Subbullets In the Slide pane, click anywhere in the text box containing the subbullets to make it active Click the Animations tab on the Ribbon, and then apply an animation to the active text box In the Slide pane, select all the subbullets on the slide, or select all the bulleted items on the slide, or click the dashed line box surrounding the text box so it changes to a solid line On the Animations tab, in the Timing group, click the Start button arrow, and then click On Click or After Previous New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Animating Text New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Adding Transitions In the Slides tab or the Outline tab in Normal view or in Slide Sorter view, select the slide(s) to which you want to add a transition, or, if applying to all the slides, select any slide Click the Transitions tab on the Ribbon In the Transition to This Slide group, click the More button to display the gallery of transition effects Click the desired transition effect in the gallery New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Adding Transitions If desired, in the Timing group, click the Transition Sound button arrow to insert a sound effect to accompany each transition If desired, in the Timing group, click the Transition Speed button arrow to modify the speed of the transition To apply the transition to all of the slides in the presentation, in the Timing group, click the Apply to All button New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Inserting Footers, Slide Numbers, and the Date In PowerPoint, a footer is text that appears on every slide, but depending on the theme applied, it might not always appear at the bottom of a slide Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon In the Text group, click the Header & Footer button New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Inserting Footers, Slide Numbers, and the Date New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Using Speaker Notes Notes (also called speaker notes) help the speaker remember what to say when a particular slide appears during the presentation They appear in the Notes pane below the slide pane in Normal view You can also print notes pages with a picture of and notes about each slide New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Using Speaker Notes New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Checking the Spelling in a Presentation Before you print or present a slide show, you should always perform a final check of the spelling of all the slides in your presentation PowerPoint does two types of spell-checking: The regular type is when PowerPoint finds a word that’s not in its dictionary The other type is called contextual spell-checking, which checks the context in which a word is used New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Checking the Spelling in a Presentation New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Previewing and Printing a Presentation PowerPoint provides several printing options: Color, grayscale, or pure black and white Full page slides Notes pages Outline Handouts New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Previewing and Printing a Presentation New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010